The Inside of a Grain Silo

Josh Lowe

27/11/25 - 13/12/25

The Inside of a Grain Silo imagines what this place might sound like. Exploring a symbiotic sonic relationship between mechanical objects and raw material.

Here, the sound of working machinery is dismantled and abstracted through sheets of metal. Each sheet is fitted with a surface transducer that plays a digitally processed musical note. The vibration produces motion and allows each sheet to move in response, producing sound of its own. Droning, pulsating, and shivering. The material hangs in permanent suspension and fills the space with a lingering, muted trace of its proposed existence. Sounds of industry, nature, or nothingness. A steel silo or a dream.

Evoking visual themes of discordance and juxtaposing technology with non-musical objects, my work explores how musical performance could be arranged and perceived in unfamiliar ways. 

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Josh Lowe is an artist and musician from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. They graduated from Massey University in 2024 with a degree in music technology. Their recent works include a quadraphonic sound composition at the University of Auckland and a collaborative performance with Footnote Dance Company.  They explore sound through physical installation, providing form and visualisation for audial ephemera. Their work explores the usage of sound to create imagined environments. Dreams, visions, and spaces in between using industrial objects with acoustic properties to produce noise.

Poster Design by Harris Wilson 

Sponsored by Parrotdog beer 

With support from Creative New Zealand